{"id":2317,"date":"2009-06-11T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-sean-winter\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-sean-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-sean-winter.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Sean Winter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cPaul\u2026is most interesting when you use him to think with, rather than as an excuse not to do any thinking of your own\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">\u2013Sean Winter, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/seanthebaptist.typepad.com\/sean_the_baptist\/2009\/06\/conference-report-paul-and-contemporary-philosophy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Conference Report: Paul and Contemporary Philosophy<\/a>\u201c<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2659261315862129434?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPaul\u2026is most interesting when you use him to think with, rather than as an excuse not to do any thinking of your own\u201d. \u2013Sean Winter, \u201cConference Report: Paul and Contemporary Philosophy\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the Day (Sean Winter)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Paul...is most interesting when you use him to think with, rather than as an excuse not to do any thinking of your own&quot;.--Sean Winter, &quot;Conference\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-sean-winter.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the Day (Sean Winter)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Paul...is most interesting when you use him to think with, rather than as an excuse not to do any thinking of your own&quot;.--Sean Winter, &quot;Conference\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/06\/quote-of-the-day-sean-winter.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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